Kid Choice

LETTERS FROM READERS

October 15, 1998

I READ the Oct. 4 ``My Word'' column twice, thinking surely it must have been written tongue-in-cheek. ``Oh, please,'' I said to myself, ``let it be satire.'' I think not.

So what if China has facilities in the factories for moms to nurse their babies? So what if after-school care is provided by the state? So what if Germany, Holland and Sweden have state-provided child care for babies of employed moms?

If the ``American Way'' is perceived by these countries to be about ``latch-key children, of babies left unsupervised, of $300 a month for care per child,'' so what?

Government taking care of my babies? No, thank you. The ``government'' did not decide that I would have children. I did. My choice, my responsibility. Barbara G. Lupfer, KISSIMMEE